by John Paczkowski
Posted on December 2, 2008 at 11:59 AM PT
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$500 fully subsidized with a plan! I said that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine…. Right now we’re selling millions and millions and millions of phones a year, Apple is selling zero phones a year. In six months, they’ll have the most expensive phone by far ever in the marketplace and let’s see…what’s the expression? Let’s see how the competition goes.”
–Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the iPhone, January 2007
“Apple’s iPhone 3G, introduced in July, is the only reason smartphone growth did not slow in September.” This according to Needham analyst Charles Wolf, who in a research note today points out that the nearly seven million iPhones Apple (AAPL) shipped during the three-month period ending September account for all of the sequential shipment growth in the quarter. Astonishing. The iPhone now represents about 16.6 percent of the entire smartphone market worldwide, second only to Nokia (NOK).
One phone. One, maybe two, carriers per market. Nearly 17 percent of the entire smartphone market worldwide in under two years. What was that you said again, Steve?
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Steve “Echo Chamber” Ballmer is still trying to figure out why people are almost universally rejecting Windows Mobile out of hand as a worthless piece of drek. He doesn’t have time to check his facts, or look outside of Microsoft’s domain to get his bearings.
At Microsoft, eating one’s own dog food is more than an aphorism.
Posted by Eric Welch at December 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 pmSteve Ballmer will rum Microflop right into the ground. He hates Apple and will not even recognize there place in the PC world and thats why he will fail. Right now he is Apples best friend.
Posted by Quincy Davis at December 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 am